Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:31:33 +0900 From: takawata@jp.freebsd.org To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/gzero vs /dev/zero Message-ID: <200708010931.l719VXiX015926@sana.init-main.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:23:20 %2B0200." <20070801092320.GA31415@stud.ntnu.no>
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In message <20070801092320.GA31415@stud.ntnu.no>, Ulf Lilleengen wrote: >On ons, aug 01, 2007 at 10:06:23 +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >> 0n Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:53:37AM +0800, LI Xin wrote: >> >> >Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >> >> Why would I use one over the other ? >> > >> >No, gzero is used with geom_zero and you should not use it directly. >> >> >> Huh ? I know this ? But why would one use gzero and not /dev/zero ? >> >/dev/gzero is a GEOM provider, and /dev/zero is not. This means you could atta >ch >other GEOM classes to it. > >But to just get zeroes, using /dev/zero is all you need :) /dev/zero has infinite length. but /dev/gzero has *just* 1 EB length, it is far more shorter.
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